NewsTrend99 - Nevada - A U.S. government report recently opened to the public confirmed the existence of secret places in Nevada known as "Area 51". But the document also said that there was no UFO (Unidentified Flying Object), aliens (extraterrestrials) there.
In some wild stories about Area 51, the base was called to serve as a warehouse store that crashed UFO and alien bodies were found. The government's version of the story about Area 51, is less dramatic.
In a 400-page report from 1992 titled "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974," historian Gregory Pedlow and Donald Welzenbach make detailed history of Area 51 as a testing ground for the military U-2 aircraft. U-2 aircraft flew much higher than commercial and military aircraft at the time, which allows the U.S. military to spy much more effectively in the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War.
In 1955, while surveying for a test site in Nevada, a group of people working on the U-2 project saw an old unpaved airstrip next to Groom Lake is remote and suitable for their needs. A rectangular vacant land, known as Area 51 on the map, it was added to the test site."To create a new facility in the middle of nowhere land sounds more attractive for workers, [Lockheed Martin engineer] Kelly Johnson called Paradise Ranch, which was soon shortened to Ranch (ranch)," said Pedlow and Welzenbach.
U-2 flying above 60,000 feet, while commercial aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s typically operated between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. One of the unexpected consequences of the test U-2 is increasing reports that there are unidentified flying objects, the report said.UFO reports from airline pilots are far more likely to come in the early evening flight from east to west. At that time, the U-2 is in the proper position for the wings to catch and reflect sunlight, creating the appearance of a fiery object in the sky. Sometimes, the sunlight bouncing off the body of U-2 and creates a sheen or reflection that can even be seen from the ground, said Pedlow and Welzenbach.
Air Force officials, who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of U-2 project and then project Oxcart secret, trying to explain the UFO sightings "connecting it with a natural phenomenon," the report said.
Reports of documents about Area 51 is obtained by the National Security Archive of George Washington University, through the Freedom of Information Act.
Some parts of the report was edited. Documents also show that the U.S. military was initially interested in hiring foreign pilots to test the U-2. The benefit, if the plane was shot down over enemy territory, it will be easier for the U.S. to deny his involvement. The names of the pilot was edited in a foreign country that opened the report. Because of language barriers and lack of experience with heavy aircraft, the Air Force finally recruit U.S. citizens.
The report also mentions about the three fatal accidents during testing 2-U in 1956. Pilot Wilburn S. Rose fell in May after he had trouble dropping "Pogos" her, which continues to keep the wheels U-2 wing parallel to the ground during takeoff. When he tried to shake one loose wheel, aircraft stalled and crashed.
Another accident occurred in August 1956 after a pilot Frank G. Grace brings too steep to climb aircraft during takeoff. Other accident occurred shortly after the U-2 took off in September 1956, at an Air Force base in Germany.
This latest document may not be completely eliminated conspiracy theories about Area 51, which is believed to be the place where the UFO and aliens.
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